Aeroplane Dance
- Alternative title
- Ka-Wayawayama
- Synopsis
- Records the ‘ky-wayawayama’ or ‘aeroplane dance’ of the Yanyuwa people of the Borroloola area in the Northern Territory of Australia. The dance was came about after an American bomber crashed in the area in December 1942 in a mission in the south-west Pacific and it re-creates the plight of the flight crew in their trek across the inhospitable terrain of the Gulf of Carpentaria and the search for the lost crew. The dance brings together the Americans’ and Yanyuwa tales of war, survival, storytelling and the creation of legends.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Australia
- Medium
- Video; Videocassette. VHS. col. 58 min.
- Year of production
- 1994
- Availability
- Sale (RAI); 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)
- Subjects
- Anthropology; Dance
- Keywords
- Aboriginal peoples; Australia; story telling; World War II
Credits
- Director
- Trevor Graham
Production Company
- Name
Film Australia
Distributor
- Name
Royal Anthropological Institute
- Contact
- Susanne Hammacher (Film Officer)
- film@therai.org.uk
- Web
- https://www.therai.org.uk/film/film-sales External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7387 0455
- Fax
- 020 7388 8817
- Address
- 50 Fitzroy Street
London
W1T 5BT - Notes
- The Institute sells more than 250 anthropology and ethnology titles on video and DVD, including some produced by students and staff of the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology. There is also a large library of internationally produced film and video productions from which items may be borrowed within the UK.
- Name
Royal Anthropological Institute Film & Video Library, c/o Concord Media
- sales@concordvideo.co.uk
- Web
- http://www.concordmedia.org.uk/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 01473 726012
- Fax
- 01473 274531
- Address
- Rosehill Centre
22 Hines Road
Ipswich
IP3 9BG
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